Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2020-11-03
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-11-03

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday steers and heifers were 2.00 higher. Light offerings were met with good demand. Trade active.

Slaughter cattle

By class and quality grade · $/cwt

Cull cows and bulls are graded, not weight-classed — grade is what moves the money here.

Class	Grade	Dressing	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,238	104.27	1,291	119
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,311	93.21	1,222	5thin
Heifers	Select	Average	1,194	83.40	996	6thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,472	103.38	1,522	109
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,478	95.20	1,407	10
Steers	Select	Average	1,788	79.50	1,421	2thin

Every lot, as filed

12 lots · USDA AMS · Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.

Class	Grade / description	Weight	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,329	103.35/cwt	101.25–111.00	1,374	17
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,030	108.41/cwt	97.00–121.00	1,117	31
Heifers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,555	98.98/cwt	97.00–100.00	1,539	3
Steers	Choice	—	1,499	103.38/cwt	98.00–107.00	1,550	92
Heifers	Choice	—	1,303	102.94/cwt	97.00–105.10	1,341	85
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,280	97.00/cwt	95.50–98.00	1,242	3
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,170	92.51/cwt	90.50–95.00	1,082	2
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,563	94.43/cwt	88.00–96.25	1,476	7
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,405	93.68/cwt	93.00–95.00	1,316	3
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,194	83.40/cwt	79.00–85.00	996	6
Steers	SelectHeavy Weight	—	2,150	75.50/cwt	75.50–75.50	1,623	1
Steers	Select	—	1,425	83.50/cwt	83.50–83.50	1,190	1

How this sale compares

Iowa weighted averages

One sale is one barn on one day. The state ladder is every Iowa auction USDA reported that week, weighted by head — the fairer test of whether a lot sold well.

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Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Tue Nov 3, 2020

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Des Moines, IA (LS-NW)

Receipts 255Last week 267Year ago 186

Compared to last Tuesday steers and heifers were 2.00 higher. Light offerings were met with good demand. Trade active.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,329	101.25–111.00	103.35
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
92	—	1,499	98.00–107.00	103.38
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,280	95.50–98.00	97.00
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,563	88.00–96.25	94.43
Steers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	2,150	75.50	75.50
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,425	83.50	83.50
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
31	—	1,030	97.00–121.00	108.41
Heifers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,555	97.00–100.00	98.98
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
85	—	1,303	97.00–105.10	102.94
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,170	90.50–95.00	92.51
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,405	93.00–95.00	93.68
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,194	79.00–85.00	83.40

Head, weight ranges, average weights and price ranges are exactly as USDA AMS filed them — nothing recomputed, nothing rounded — in USDA's own reporting structure. This is RaisedBeef's rendering of that data, not a copy of USDA's document.

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